Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“It was like hermits. There was no point freezing your nadgers off on top of some mountain while communing with the Infinite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush. — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian. — Amrita Singh Copy Share Image
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. — Delta Goodrem Copy Share Image
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
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